Our brochure team created both a flier to say who we are and a brochure that, in depth, explores our core values, our concerns, our care for the Earth.
Needed: artists, volunteers for 9/24-25 art fair
This year’s PeaceWorks KC Local Art Fair comes to a new location: Theis Park, south of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. “Art + peace—what a combo!” says Ann Suellentrop.
War rhetoric, war racket
War is a racket. As weapons pour into Ukraine and the war goes longer and longer, the US military-industrial complex rakes in profits.
Map indicating regions particularly impacted by nuclear testing copyright 2022, ICAN, distributed via Nuclear Test Impacts
Highlights from Day 2 of Meeting of States Parties of TPNW
Susi Snyder with ICAN distributed "Some highlights from" day 2 of the first Meeting of States Parties (MSP) of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna, Austria.
Book club to delve into Thích Nhất Hạnh’s The Art of Living
Starting in September, our book club, via zoom, will explore one of Thích Nhất Hạnh’s books with meditations on gratitude for our lives and our interconnectedness with the world.
Save Aug. 7 for remembering Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Please come Sunday, Aug. 7, to our PeaceWorks annual Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance. We’ll park at 6:30 pm on Prospect near Mo. Hwy. 150. We’ll take a shuttle to our 7 pm rally site, the entry to the nuclear-weapon parts plant, the KC National Security Campus, 14510 Botts Rd., Kansas City MO.
Ranked choice voting team to stage parallel election
Better Ballot KC is trying to get ranked choice voting on the ballot in KC MO. One way to show the need for RCV is to hold a “parallel election” for voters leaving polls Aug. 2. Volunteers needed!
PW newsletter makes calls to action for Earth, for peace
We call for action: Come to our Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance Aug. 7. Attend the jury trial of a nuclear weapon resister Sept. 6. Volunteer at our PeaceWorks KC Local Art Fair Sept. 24-25. And join us Oct. 1 to protest drone warfare at Whiteman AFB.
Attend Henry Stoever’s jury trial 9/6
Stoever, who crossed the property line at the local nuke-parts plant in KC MO in 2021, was found guilty in February and sentenced to 2 years’ probation, plus fines. He appealed the decision and comes to a jury trial Sept. 6. You come too!